My MacBook Pro M3 has 36GiB RAM and does all of the comment above + music producing (dozens of VSTs on some 1-2 dozens tracks) + projection mapping and can run some LLM models locally like the Mistral ones.
I've only managed to hear the fan when chatting with a LLM, for anything else it's been an absolutely silent beast.
I have M2 Pro 16GB from a client. It's comfortable for typical dev work - tons of tabs open, Docker, VS Code etc. Though the swap is about 20GB now and sometimes it lags. Still it beats any Intel or AMD laptop I ever had in terms of performance. This machine is on a whole another level.
My own machines are M1 Max 32GB and they fare slightly better.
I've only managed to hear the fan when chatting with a LLM, for anything else it's been an absolutely silent beast.